Tag Archives: Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Awesome book.  Most impressive was the writing, the character interaction, the narrative structure and the insight of Carson McCullers into her people.  Theme:  Hopelessness of dreams coming true and the feeling of isolation in seeking a soulmate.  While I’ve since … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Amazing.  McCullers is truly amazing in some of her skills of storytelling. We know the truth about what happened between Dr. Copeland and Jake Blount, but when next we come upon Jake after some time has passed, he is running … Continue reading → Continue reading →

McCullers must have been born with a pen in her chubby little hand.  I can’t believe how well the story has been plotted out. In the first couple of chapters, we meet the five main characters and three or four … Continue reading → Continue reading →

First off, let me say that McCullers is at least a thousand times the writer I could ever be.  Then, because I cannot help but read as a writer, let me say that there  are some elements of writing in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While it is debatable as to exactly what the event or situation need be, most of the best novels go beyond just the lives of their characters to include some more important question of interest to society.  McCullers has the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am well on my way to being awed and intimidated by McCullers’ writing.  This is one author I do want to know more about; natural talent? study of writing?  a reader? an observer? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The tension that arose in the reader’s mind for the party to go well for Mick, given the knowledge of her character and her tendency to not quite fit in with her peers, does come about when the boys and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

During the first week she walked up and down the halls by herself and thought about this.  She planned about being with some bunch almost as much as the music.  Those two ideas were in her head all the time.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love Carson McCullers’ voice in this novel, her easy way of telling what is in the setting, and yet I would cringe a bit at what I see as amateurish, in this case, repetition of a vital word used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even when you think you have the point of view thing all worked out–it sounds very simple–it, like tense, doesn’t always come out clean with the rules.  Carson McCullers uses omniscient third person narrator in The Heart is a Lonely … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Fate (or whatever) led me to pick up this book, and fate made me read today: Mick leaned on the bannisters of the stairs.  The sudden crying had started her with the hiccups.  It seemed to her as she thought … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Carson McCullers tells a great story.   Mr. Singer, the mute, has lost his longtime friend and is faring well enough on his own, but we are getting a strong sense of loneliness, and McCullers, with the backdrop of a tavern … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Perhaps like alcohol, reading can immerse the mind in worlds that don’t exist.  Finding comfort in the drinking in of pages till the bottom of bottle glistens with the last drop of story.  I’ve picked out Carson McCullers’ The Heart … Continue reading → Continue reading →